What Trump's Proposed Budget Cuts From Higher Education And Research

President Trump unveiled his FY2027 discretionary budget request on Friday. As part of the $2.2 trillion White House proposal, military spending would receive $1.5 trillion, a boost of $445 billion — more than 40% over what the U.S. was set to spend on defense this fiscal year. That request comes at the same time the U.S. is becoming more ensnared in its war with Iran, which is estimated to be costing the country more than $1 billion a day.

To partially offset that increase, the administration called for $73 billion in reduced domestic spending, a 10% cut spread across several federal agencies that support social services, health, research, housing and education programs.

The president’s budget proposal is a financial reflection of the administration’s priorities, a wish list that Congress, which is ultimately responsible for the laws that control federal spending, is unlikely to adopt. But the budget does reveal the policy agenda that the executive branch intends to pursue, and this proposal is loaded with requests for the military, law enforcement, border security, and security infrastructure.

Funding for many domestic programs, by contrast, is slashed, with them being frequently dismissed as “woke,” wasteful," and “inefficient.” At one point, budget documents promise to eliminate “the weaponized rot in our Federal Government once and for all.” At another, they vow that “President Trump is ”committed to eliminating radical gender and racial ideologies that poison the minds of Americans."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-proposed-budget-cuts-higher-130300201.html

Building a police state at the expense of education. Many in the oligarchy feel threatened by a meritocracy.